Look! Up in the sky! It's a turd! It's a pain!

[Squishy]

"Ain't It Cool News" has gotten ahold of the script for the proposed new "Superman" flick. Oh my bleeding **** does it smell.

WARNING: This review contains many, many spoilers.

(Note: I'm checking to see if posting links works for me again; I tried three times last night to post a link to Peter Jackson's "King Kong" script without success. Just in case the linkage doesn't work again, the URL is http://comics2film.com/StoryFrame.php?f_id=1803  ...also, I'm using an indirect link to a Comics2Film.com article 'coz everyone should see that site!)

[J.R.]

I read that review earlier. *Cringe*. All of a sudden the idea of Nuclear Man and Lois Lane breathing in space don't seem so stupid.

[Dano]

Dezenformatsia is a Russian word meaning disinformation.  The KGB practiced it with abandon up to the end of the Cold War to both hide what they were doing and to try to make the US look bad.  It is my understanding that some film companies have taken this course in dealing with internet spies trying to ruin their productions before release.  They leak bad info and fake scripts to divert those who want to ferret the stuff out.

Although I always found Supe in all his iterations a sterile, one-dimensional bore, I offer the disinformation possibility to those die-hard Superfans who find this report as depressing as I think they must find it.  Yikes.

[AndyC]

Krypton not only sounds like Naboo, there are shades of Zeist there as well.

The most surprising thing is that with all the aerial martial arts fights between super beings, the super-powered alien soldiers travelling in space pods, and the hero dying, being contacted in the afterlife and coming back, it really sounds like Abrams ripped off most of his story from Dragonball Z. Did Superman have a tail as a boy?

[Cullen]

More information on this story can be found here.  

Maybe it means things'll change for the better.

Maybe it doesn't.

Who can say?
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[Flangepart]

Nice link, Cullen.
....The writer make a good point. Continuity is a reeeeeal bear.
....Look at Star Trek. Lot of inconsistancys. The more hands in the pot, the more the original recipe is tampered with. Sure, novels written by the same author can stray, but they are less likely to stray so widely, with one mind and heart controling the product.
....Saw "Spiderman" going over to England. Loved it. Sam Rami knows how to balance the needs of movies and the desires of the core audience. Still, you can never please everyone. You just take your best shot, and hope for the best.
....Liked the comment about Batman and Plan 9. What the director intends, is not always what the watchers precieve. Just like everyday existance, thing do get mis-precieved. Or even correctly precieved, and the audience says "I'm outta here". ( Capt America, anyone?)
....I guess the only hope is the writers come up with a script that catches the spirit of the story, even if the details are to be quibbled over. we'll see.

[Squishy]

Red Dragon, Green Kyptonite: Comics2Film.com's news for October 1st states that Anthony Hopkins has been cast as Superman's Poppy, Jor-El.

Look, I understand that no actor wants to be typecast, and Hopkins has done wonders in a wide variety of roles. Still, forgive me for I cannot help this:

Jor-El: "Here's a little bit for you, General Zod..."
Zod: (munch smack) "Mmmm. That's good. Uhhhhh. You will bow down before me, Jor-El. Uhhhhhhhhheeeeeee..."
Jor-El: "Yes, that's nice. Here, have another bite..."

Nnngyaaaaaaaa...

Young Justice? Pre-Teen Titans?: In the same day's news, Comics2Film reports that an animated "Teen Titans" is in the works. It's not any of the disasterous versions of "The Titans" that DC has published lately; it's most of the highly-popular group of the '80s--Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Raven, and Changeling--with one big difference: Don't say I didn't warn you.

[Squishy]

More superheroes launching onto the big screen, in this IMDB article:

(quote)

"The comic-book superhero Sub-Mariner, who first appeared in Marvel Comics #1 and Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 in 1939 and has been a staple of Marvel Comics ever since, will soon be coming to the screen as a result of a new deal with Universal. The comic-book company and the studio are also teaming up on what Avi Arad, CEO of Marvel Studios, called the "first superhero action-comedy," by bringing Prime, a character who made his debut in 1995, to the screen. Film projects involving the two Marvel characters have been announced in the past, but appear to have now been placed on a fast track, according to trade reports."

Sub-Mariner, fine. (Warner Brothers, natch, will counter with "Aquaman." I wonder which version they'll go for? Clean-shaven Superfriends benchwarmer? Hairy mutilated angry loner? Note to Marvel/Sony: Prince Namor's comic-book dialogue won't work onscreen. "I, Prince Namor, will annihilate all who stand between me and the married woman I want to play 'sea-horse rumpus' with! Imperius Rex!")

Prime? Geh. He's kind of like the Captian Marvel of "Shazam!" fame, except he melts from form to form. He was part of a superhero-group toon that came and went a while back--don't remember the name... Also, "superhero action-comedy" has not only been done before, those prior examples have turned the very phrase "superhero action-comedy" into an obscenity. Holey metal rocks, Batman!